MARQUETTE — Blake Stenberg, who will earn a bachelor's degree from Northern Michigan University in social studies secondary education, has been selected as the student speaker for NMU's commencement on Saturday. The Bark River native will deliver his speech not long after returning from a ...
ISHPEMING — Tuesday was Workers’ Memorial Day, an international day of remembrance and action for workers who were killed, injured or made unwell by their work. An event was held at the Cliffs Shaft Mine Museum in Ishpeming to commemorate the day, as well as to honor fallen miners from the ...
MARQUETTE - The Michigan Department of Transportation continues to adjust spring weight restriction areas in an annual move to protect roads. Effective 7 a.m. today, weight restrictions will be lifted on all state trunkline highways from the southern Michigan border north to and including ...
MARQUETTE — The Michigan Association of Superintendents and Administrators Region I meeting was held on Wednesday at the Northern Center on the Northern Michigan University campus. In attendance was Dr. Glenn Maleyko, who took the office of state superintendent at the end of last year. ...
MARQUETTE — Last week, Upper Peninsula state Reps. Dave Prestin, Greg Markkanen and Karl Bohnak, all members of the Republican Party, proposed legislation which would sponsor the creation of a veterans’ cemetery in the Upper Peninsula. House Bill 5843 of 2026 was introduced by Prestin and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. The bill appropriates funds to conduct a cemetery location analysis and feasibility study by the Michigan veterans affairs agency, as well as creates an Upper Peninsula veterans’ cemetery fund. The total estimated cost of the project is $5.7 million ...
MARQUETTE — On Monday, Michael Sivula, a contractor from Gwinn, was found guilty of 11 total charges over seven cases. The charges included counts of false pretenses of over $1,000 but less than $20,000 and using a computer to commit a crime, with a habitual offender notice attached to several of the charges. “In this particular case, we had been set for trial and then a day prior (Sivula) elected to plead guilty to all charges,” said Marquette County Prosecutor Jenna Nelson. “He didn’t plead per any type of plea agreement; none was offered. He just straight-up pled. It’s ...
